#online predators

[shrinemaidenmajime]

!! Serious post !! ( continue reading for more information. )

As you've seen in another post by @lucius-official, the individual nope1661 "Big bear" has been harassing and grooming minors online, aswell as threatening to harm and dox them if they stated that they were uncomfortable with his behaviour. Today he made a new account and messaged a friend of mine @alexezcorner who has been harassed by this man for a year now, and doxxed them. His actions should be dealt with, so if you know this individual irl or online - please contact the proper authorities or let people you know be aware about him. Please repost this post if you come across it, stay safe.

[lucius-official]

ooc// Public Service Announcement (TW mentions of grooming):

I know this isn't my normal content but I'm posting this on behalf of people I know who have encountered this individual, and as a warning in general to anyone who may encounter this user. This individual- nope1661 -has harassed and groomed minors online, and has sent threats to those who state that they are uncomfortable with his behaviour. Will send explicit messages despite users stating they are underage. Reports have been made to roblox but his account is still up and running.

If you encounter this user or if you have the time to do so please report them, or reblog this post to spread the message [EDIT: Just please do not attempt to message him or send him any threats.] Thank you for reading.

[crabby-gothgirl]

Got perma-banned from Reddit for calling out a pedophile, they still won't let me have my account back

Hello. To anyone who manages to find this post (probably no one will but I still need to get this off my chest). Please help my reblog this story. This needs to be shared.

I have been permanently "suspended" from Reddit-which is a bullshit term that they have called my ostracization because their sentence is never going to let up.

5 months ago, I saw a comment on Reddit where a person was dangerously promoting the idea that minors can start having sexual arousal at a young age, therefore they are capable of consenting to an adult having sex with them.

I of course told this person to immediately desist. They refused, so I unleashed a diatribe of hurtful words (not even ashamed to say I frankly told them to go choke on their own vomit).

And how did Reddit admins choose to handle the situation after I reported this aggressor's comments invoking harm on children?

My comments were reported by the pedophile for "inciting bodily violence". My account was the one that got preemptively IP banned from Reddit, from my main and even my alt account which had nothing to do with my main account.

I traveled out of the country recently and got a new IP. I am a struggling artist and writer and wanted to use the account solely to get advice on character design and storyboarding tips for my current project. Reddit somehow managed to track my IP change and they banned me once again, on an account that had nothing to do with my previous account.

If anyone can find this post, please reblog. Please help me spread the word on how horribly corrupt Reddit's admin team is and how they use their so-called "terms of service" to protect the well-being of online predators and other creeps rather than the people who are in need of most protection.

[catsanditalkshit]

I interviewed the guy who groomed me as a teen - he asked for a current pic

NOTE: All identifying information has been changed for privacy purposes. For the purposes of this article, the person interviewed will be referred to by the pseudonym, “Harrison”.

TW: mention of grooming and grooming tactics but no physical sexual assault

I wrote a version of this once already, but, to be honest, it was too kind for the reality of the situation. For a bit of context, I’ll have to take a few steps back to 2011. 

My friends had feather extensions, were experimenting with a cut crease, and the internet was something that was relatively widely accessible and was a simultaneously wonderful and horrible place. I, like many other Millennials, spent countless sleepovers on Omegle giggling with friends over the people (and things) we came across while swiping through the endless anonymous chats. It definitely wasn’t a place for young girls, but it was a semi-safe way to explore and push the boundaries of what we were allowed to do.

In the crisp Autumn of 2011, I went looking for a new way to push the envelope. I logged on and created a dating profile on an already notorious site - OkCupid. I said I was 18 and that, along with an email address, was all that was required to join. I was flooded with messages despite the fact that I had no picture and a bare profile. I waded through the promises of “a night [I’ll] never forget” and a lifetime of being “taken care of”, but ultimately, freaked out and logged off.

I was 15.

Should I have been there? No. 

Did I tell people I was underaged? Yes. Did they report my profile? No. 

Some of them did tell me I shouldn’t be there though and stopped talking to me, so don’t lose all faith in humanity.  

My OkCupid profile remained active but unused for months while I experienced a few IRL events. Namely a teacher who, looking back, took too much of an interest in me, a friend’s boyfriend who pinned me to a wall backstage until I kneed him, a fellow camp counselor who made sure I knew he carried a knife before cornering me, and a fair few others who took it upon themselves to make their lack of control my problem. Between those experiences and my unfortunate upbringing, I had a rocky relationship with trust, intimacy, and a few other important tenets of healthy relationships.

In the Spring of 2012, I returned to OkCupid out of sheer confusion, naivety, and reckless determination. At the time, I didn’t understand my feelings or what was going on at a deeper level. I knew that I wanted connection, but it didn’t seem like I wanted the same kind of connection my friends did. Years later, I understand that I’m neurodivergent with a complex sexuality, but that journey is a story for another time. For now, it’s all a back-drop for my decision to go on OkCupid and find a man with more life experience to try to explain how things were supposed to actually go. Believe me, now I’m more than aware that’s the last person I should’ve been looking for and the last place I should’ve been looking for them, but hindsight’s 20/20.

Enter “Harrison”. He was one of many who flooded my inbox when I updated my profile to include my interests even though it lacked a picture. He was chatty, seemed kind, and wasn’t put off by the fact that I wanted to get to know him and not just hook up. He was in his 30s and had baggage, but he was funny and shared some of my interests. At the time, I could tell he was lonely and seeking attention, but figured it would suit us both just fine. Within a day or so, I came clean about not being 18. I told him I was 16 going on 17 which, still a lie, but seemed okay because I would be 16 soon and we wouldn’t be chatting that long anyhow ‘cause who would want to talk to a kid? Now, I’ll pause here to say my mind back then didn’t clock how weird a 34-year-old wanting to date an 18-year-old was. I was young and naive and knew he’d probably want to hook-up, but that if I didn’t want to do that, then he would get bored and move on - legality aside. Regardless, Harrison wasn’t angry with my revelation and we kept talking. 

He showered me with compliments and poured an immense amount of time into me. We exchanged Skype usernames and began chatting there. Soon it was near constant chatting with almost daily calls thrown in. At a certain point, he asked if I had heard of an app called Snapchat and whether I’d make an account so we could send pictures without him getting in trouble. I joked that he just wanted me to download it so I would send him nudes since I always used possible trouble as an excuse to not send any.  In reality, I was uncomfortable with the idea of him seeing more than my face because one: I didn’t feel ready for that and two: my body dysmorphia told me no one would love me as I was. He let the Snapchat idea slide for a bit, but would ask for pictures more often - selfies, outfits, anything he could to get me comfortable sharing all intermixed with flirty non-jokes asking for pictures if I mentioned things like getting ready for bed or going for a swim.

Then calls became video calls. He started off saying he just wanted to see my face since we hadn’t met up yet. He even joked that I could be just about anyone if he hadn’t seen me on video yet. This became the new norm. After a bit more time spent getting me comfortable with him, he asked to video chat during a late night call. He didn’t want to just see my face this time. I had seen much more of him, especially during calls where he would turn casual chats sexual while I did homework, and now he wanted to see all of me. 

I put it off and told him I didn’t want to because I was fat and didn’t want him to stop talking to me. He told me it didn’t matter because he was so into me, he didn’t care what I looked like, he just wanted to see all of me. I declined and we stopped chatting for the night. It was the next night that we sat in a video call while I was having a movie night with my family. I sat carefully so that they couldn’t see my screen and just explained it away as a paper I had to finish. We typed back and forth silently with our cameras on until my family went to sleep.

Harrison told me it was late and he was going to head to sleep, but I asked him to wait just a little while longer. I had decided I was going to “be brave” and let him see what I looked like. I still wasn’t ready for what he really wanted, but it felt like a fair compromise to at least let him see what I looked like. From then on, the conversations were less about general, daily topics and more about the things he wanted to do to me, how much he wanted to touch me, and him asking if I could go see him. By this time, my 16th birthday had come and gone and, in talking about the celebrations, I let it slip that I had turned 16 not 17. I vividly remember feeling my blood run cold when he stopped me to ask about it. I thought for sure that he would get angry. Instead, he told me I should’ve told him sooner because it would’ve been even hotter for him had he known I had been even younger the whole time.

What followed was months of calls that dove deeper and deeper into some of his interests that left me feeling sick to my stomach. The more I complied, the steadier his attention was and any resistance was met with him withdrawing and telling me it was clear I wasn’t interested in him and he would spiral into self-loathing episodes. Eventually, the chats petered out as I steadily disengaged with Harrison and how disgusting he made me feel.

Did we ever meet in person? No. 

Did the over a year of daily grooming and engaging in his deviant sexual interests affect my self worth? Absolutely.

That would’ve been the end of it too if it weren’t for the fact that he reached out nearly two years later when I was in my first year at university. He had tried to follow my private Instagram, and I denied it. Then he sent me a message on Skype, which I ignored. Finally, during a night out with friends, I got a message that asked for me to just talk to him followed by a call from him just minutes later. I thought about declining it but figured maybe he would go away if I answered. He told me he had to drive by my university for work and anytime he did, he thought of me and how I made him feel. 

He told me no one had ever made him feel the way I did and no one had since. He told me he still thought about our calls when he pleasured himself. He said that he tried to think of a way we could work out when I was a child; that he had looked into what it would take for us to get married and have a life together - kids, picket fence, the whole nine. He said he wanted, no needed, to know if there was even just the slightest chance for him… to hook up with me.

Feeling all the anger and hurt and disgust I had spent a year in therapy wallowing in bubbling up, I told him no. I told him the truth - There wasn’t a single chance in hell and all the things that got him so hot made me feel disgusted. I only did and said the things I did back then because he wanted me to, and those things made me nearly vomit afterwards. Not to mention the life he wanted wasn’t what I wanted for my future. He seemed heartbroken and told me he’d leave me alone but not before blaming me for how “messed up” his head was and that I had a responsibility to him because he had to think about what he wanted to do with me anytime he wanted to get off. With only a year of therapy under my belt, I told him that what happened in his head wasn’t my responsibility and hung up.

He tried to follow me on Instagram again in my mid-20s - I declined and blocked him for good. 

Well, until last week. In the year 2025, a year shy of my 30th birthday, in a place where I feel safe and I’m working through the countless years of unfortunate experiences, I unblocked him and went so far as to send him a follow request. Within 24 hours, he had messaged me. He opened with a few jokes and spoke about how he was surprised I even remembered him and turned that manipulative charm of his up to 11. Suddenly, it was all about how I had such an impact on him that he managed to remember my name after all these years. All the while, joking about how he hoped he wasn’t in trouble.

I explained I was reaching out with the hope of having a few lingering questions answered. I had a set of 20 questions prepared but only got through four of them. The rest were answered by him in his over-explanatory answers describing his life with his wife who he met and then proposed to around when he reached out to me in university. In that conversation, he was vague, and downplayed his part in things while describing it all as a “loose friendship”, but was reasonably apologetic. I was sympathetic for the majority of it despite the obvious manipulative undertones. In a vacuum, without the context of what was done and said over a decade ago, it seems like an honest mistake; a momentary lapse in judgement. With context however, it’s over a year of daily bad decisions with a child he knew was struggling even if he didn’t understand the extent. 

There was a fair amount of hollow apologies for hurt he may have caused and him not remembering much from that time mixed with accusations of me having dozens of men doing the same things to me at the time, all-the-while saying he only remembers me because he cared so deeply for me. 

The reality of the situation being that yes I was a kid in a place kids weren’t supposed to be, and he was an adult who saw that and took advantage of it instead of blocking or reporting the account. He put the blame on me over a decade later like he didn’t used to video call me while I was doing homework and play with himself on camera and sulk for days and send troublingly sad messages if I didn’t answer or if I didn’t want to join in. I was a kid in the wrong place and he was the adult who saw that and took his time preying on my low self-esteem and promising to be gentle if I could just find a way to sneak out to his place. There were so many individual moments and decisions that he made that took him to where he was, and the simplest path would���ve been to report and block. 

Even without all of that context, as the conversation drew to a close, he wished me well and told me I could reach out if I needed to ask more questions... And then he asked for a “current pic”.

Over a decade and not a single day’s growth.

[familythings]

How I managed to Remove Roblox from our Life - The Dangers of the Game and Tips for Parents

Let me say it from the beginning: I hate Roblox. The day we removed it from our lives was one of the most liberating moments for me. I wasn’t initially inclined to share our experience with Roblox, but after reading an article in Smart Parenting about how the game affects many children’s lives, I felt compelled to share our story and provide some insights about the game and what steps parents can…

[techdriveplay]

Red Flags to Look Out for if Your Kids Are on Social Media

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[trench]

The stranger is dead: Omegle shuts down

This past week, the windowless white van of the internet, Omegle, has finally been shut down. It wasn’t shut down because its owner realized it was a haven for online predators. I’m pretty sure the owner was well aware of that. It’s been voluntarily shut down after the owner, Leif K-Brooks, lost a multi-million dollar lawsuit to a victim who was preyed upon through Omegle. For those of you who���

[makeupreviewandbeautyblog]

Happinetz provides security on the Internet for children

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[safety4childrennow]

How Angel Watch is Combating Cyberbullying and Online Predators

Angel Watch is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to combating cyberbullying and online predators. The organization was founded by a group of parents who were concerned about the safety of their children online. In this article, we will discuss how Angel Watch is working to combat cyberbullying and online predators.

## Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is a growing problem that affects millions of children and teenagers around the world. It is a form of bullying that takes place online, and it can have serious consequences for the victims. Angel Watch is working to combat cyberbullying by raising awareness about the issue and providing resources for parents and children. The organization offers educational materials and workshops that teach children about online safety and how to prevent cyberbullying. Angel Watch also works with schools and community organizations to promote anti-bullying campaigns and to provide support for victims of cyberbullying.

## Online Predators

Online predators are individuals who use the internet to target children and teenagers for sexual exploitation. They often use social media and other online platforms to gain the trust of their victims. Angel Watch is working to combat online predators by raising awareness about the issue and providing resources for parents and children. The organization offers educational materials and workshops that teach children about online safety and how to recognize and avoid online predators. Angel Watch also works with law enforcement agencies to identify and prosecute online predators.

## Conclusion

Cyberbullying and online predators are serious problems that can have devastating consequences for children and teenagers. Angel Watch is working to combat these issues by raising awareness and providing resources for parents and children. By working together, we can create a safer online environment for our children and protect them from the dangers of cyberbullying and online predators.

[chicken-blitz13]

My favorite genre in scifi has to be aliens with daddy issues

You cannot tell me that they wouldn’t complain about their fathers to each other over discord

[genericpuff]

If there's anyone more out of touch with webcomic culture than Webtoons, it's their investors who they keep pulling the wool over in their earnings calls 💀😆

[rileys-battlecats]

the crane wives are once again inspiring me. higher ground is SO mudpawcoded

[pillowperson2542]

Look at this dirty pred, idc what yall do lmao just post it >w<

[bravoechoes]

as someone who had a great time with TFR, still agree with lots of your thoughts. was curious re: your previous thesis on the entity riffing off covid misinformation, how you thought final reckoning handled the central metaphor & whatnot? i’m realizing this is a pretty vague q sorry about that

re: this post

not vague at all! and i guess to answer your question i will go back to DR for a second. imo one of the ways to read Dead Reckoning is that it is "diagnosing" a social problem - the huge rise of online political disinformation, which has been stoked by various governments for political purposes and who all want exclusive control over it as a political tool (the CIA briefing at the beginning of DR makes this point explicitly). Now obviously this is an American franchise about a specific branch of the American government, so the obvious elephant in the room is Trump as the originator of this rise in disinformation (Erika Sloane becoming the president in FR is very much a "the absence itself is a presence" re: Trump). It is also common in certain sectors of academic scholarship (particularly social media studies, plus specific sub-fields of polisci, sociology, and security studies) to locate the Trump presidency as the beginning of/major contributor to this "rise". So like this is a well-established historical narrative about where this disinformation wave comes from, particularly when discussing heavily-online movements like Qanon, Jan 6th, incels, COVID denialism, and so on. And if you read DR this way, then The Entity is a symbolic representation of these concerns.

And DR is part 1 of a 2-parter. so If DR is diagnosing the problem, FR is making a causal claim about the consequences of this problem - this 'destruction of truth' done via online disinformation and government meddling has created the international political conditions for WWIII, has caused the breakdown of civil society (mass global protests), a global nuclear arms race, and widespread paranoia about all your neighbours being out to get you.

This movie is also obviously accessing the very recent collective cultural image of pro-Palestine protests, whether intentionally or not. And I lean intentionally given that they include Israel as a state that has been threatening to launch nuclear missiles (im NOT saying this film is substantively taking a stance on Palestine, just that it is clearly referencing it amongst a range of other contemporary political issues). And I further lean this way given that the movie has a recurring refrain that, while deeply problematic is ultimately inoffensive imo, which is that like, we all just need to put aside our differences, stop fighting, and come together. Ethan early on in the film says something like "there's no ideologies, there's no dogma, there's just right and wrong" and then in the arctic cabin with Donloe and Tapeesa, there are the russian soldiers that I think Grace(?) says let's forget nations for a second, pretend you're not russian and im not british, let's just talk to each other like human beings.

So I think FR is pointing to online disinformation as a cause of and contributor to this increased paranoia and the stoking of our various 'petty' or ridiculous political differences (nationalism is an example used in the film, as is ideology, although that word is certainly being used in the popular sense of the term, ie, a false belief system about the world). And I think it locates the origin of this problem within COVID and/or the Trump presidency. This is obviously a very liberal understanding of history and the causes of the rise of far-right governments (great evil men come in and change the course of history) and has a lot of flaws, some of which are reactionary (nationalism and ideology are not petty differences! they are material forces in the world attached to various forms of power and entrenched political conflicts - to dismiss concepts like nationalism or ideology as things that can be just 'put aside' veers on being anti-intellectual, although I'm by no means accusing the film or McQ or Cruise of being reactionary or anti-intellectual tbc).

And also, given that this movie is very preoccupied with reminding people of Mission Impossible in general (but particularly the first one, given the return of Donloe, the reveal that Briggs = Jim Phelps's son, the handing back of the knife Ethan loses in the Langley heist, etc), the other political moment being engaged with is the Cold War (ie the threat of global nuclear war - Kittridge even says to Ethan in DR that "the next war's not gonna be a cold one"), given that the IMF was created as a Cold War outfit. So I think the film is about a time in history "re-emerging" from the past, i.e. the global tensions of the Cold War (and WWII) returning to haunt us in the present, but via the realm of increasingly hostile technology (something of a "we brought this on ourselves" kind of thing).

sooooooooooooooooo to summarize all of that I think FR is dealing with the consequences of the issues set up in DR, which i outlined above. Is this also engaging with AI? I mean definitely yes, but I don't think that is the primary animating concern of this film. If it was, I think it would be much more preoccupied with like, art and culture and the human spirit or whatever (which is ofc not nearly as high stakes as "evil AI starts nuclear war" but I just do not get the sense that AI re: art is where the film's major concerns lie, nor is AI the major vehicle for disinformation online, an issue that far predated the current AI panic). I think reading this movie as a movie about AI is a fairly literalist (though not incorrect) reading. Which like that's completely fine lol nobody is required to engage with the film in a particular way or the way I prefer, and that reading is legitimate and probably an intended reading of it, but reading FR through that lens is not interesting or productive for me personally because it limits the types of interpretation and analysis that I find compelling.

[cowboy-robooty]

theres no fucking way people dont know what otp means anymore. Literally every native english speaker knows what an otp is i think twitter lies to me once again

[natjennie]

listening to adam's statement as someone who only really got attached to nrb after adam had left, so I'm not personally invested in the situation nor did I even really know what happened and I've gotta say. he really does seem just like. genuinely forthcoming. considerate to the other parties involved. disappointed, obviously, that such a personal conflict has to be made public in this way. but handling it with grace. I am one of the top straight white man haters in the country but besties. he seems fine.